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BOW FOR MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.

(No Model.)

Patented Apr. 19, 1887.

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D. NETTEKOVEN.

BOW FOR MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. N0 .'361,441. PatentedApr. 19, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC DANIEL NETTEKOVEN, OF FORT SHATV, MONTANATERRITORY.

BOW FOR MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent'No. 361,441, dated April19, 1887.

(No model.)

To. a whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, DANIEL N ETTEKOVEN, of Fort Shaw, in the county ofLewis and Clarke and Territory of Montana, have invented a new andImproved Bow for Musical Instruments, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description.

The object of my invention is to provide a new and improved bow formusical instruments, in which the hair can be quickly removed andreplaced and is not liable to become loose in its fastenings.

The invention consists of various parts and details and combinations ofthe same, as will be fully described hereinafter, and then pointed outin the claims. I

Reference is to be had to the accomypanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improve- Fig. 2 is a side elevationof the same. Fig. 3 is a sectional elevation of one of the fastenings.Fig. 4 isa sectional plan view of the same. Fig. 5 represents the wedgeused in connection with the fastening. Fig. 6 is a front elevation of amodified form of the fastening. Fig. 7 is a sectional side elevation ofthe same. Fig 8 is a sectional plan view of the same. Fig. 9 is a frontelevation of a modified form of the fastening. Fig. 10 is a sectionalplan view of the same. Fig. 11 is aside elevation of a modified form ofmy improvement. Fig. 12 is a front view of the same, and Fig. 13 is asectional elevation of the pocket.

The bow A consists, principally,-of the hair B, held at each end in afastening, G, secured, respectively, to the head and hand-piece of thestaff D, of the usual construction. Each fasttening 0 consists ofa backplate, E, provided in front with a wedge-shaped pocket, F, into whichare passed the ends of the hair, which are soldered together by rosin,and additionally held in the pocket F by a wedge, G, fitting into thesaid pocket, as shown in detail in Figs. 3, 4, and 5. The ends of thehair project slightly at the inner end of the pocket F, and are singedso as to make them thicker, and are thereby prevented from being pulledthrough the pocket F.

The back plate, E, of the fastening O is provided on its outer end withone or more elonis held on a hook or hooks, H, secured to the v head andthe hand-piece, respectively, of the staff D. This may also be reversed,and the back-plate, E, provided with the hook, and a correspondingaperture formed in the staff by which the fastening is held to the same.Each fastening C may also be secured to the staff by means of screws. 7

Theinnerend, Loftheback plate, E, projects slightly beyond the pocket F,and is corrugated or curved so as to raise the hair B from the head orhand-piece of the staff, thus preventing the hair from coming in contactwith the staff. Instead of forming the pocket F wedge-shaped, I may alsomake the same as shown in the modification represented by Figs.

6, 7, and 8, or as shown in the modification represented by Figs. 9and-10.

In the former modification the front ends of the pocket F overlap andare pressed inward upon the hair, which is thus held in position withoutthe use of the wedge G. In the modification shown in Figs. 9 and 10 thepocket F is formed solid and the front pressed inward upon the hair.

It will be seen that by providing the hair B with the fastening G at itsends the said'hair' can be easily and quickly attached to the staff,thus avoiding painful delays for musicians in case the hair should breakwhile executing music.

Instead of arranging the fastening C as shown and described, I may alsoplace the same as shownin Figs. 11 and 12, in which I the pocket F isturned inward and rests with the curved end I in a notch formed on thehead and hand-piece of the staff A, thus holding the said fasteningsecurely in place. The inside walls of the pockets F may be lined, as

shown in Fig. 18.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent 1. In a bow for musical instruments, thecombination, with the hair, of afastening pro vided with a taperingpocket in which are placed the ends of the said hair and a wedge fittinginto the said pocket, substantially as shown and described.

2. In abow for musical instruments, the staff having the usual head andhand-pieoes, in

[ a pocket, F, and the curved end I, in combinacombination with the hairand the fastenings, tion with the staff D, provided with the head eachprovided with apocket in which the ends of the said hair are held, andalso provided 5 with a curved end resting on the said head andhand-piece of the stafi', so as to prevent the hair from coming incontact with the staff, substantially as shown and described.

3. In a bow for musical instruments, the

10 hair B, the fastenings 0, each provided with and hand-piece, in whichthe said fastenings O are secured, substantially as shown and described.

DANIEL NETTEKOVEN.

XVitnesses:

1 1G120. HELDT, JOHN H. SHEPHERD.

